„Świat w ostatecznym rozrachunku należy określić jako miejsce cierpienia.”
Źródło: powieść Czarny Książę, tłum. Krystyna Tarnowska
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Iris Murdoch słynne cytaty
Źródło: powieść Dzwon, tłum. Krystyna Tarnowska
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. (ang.)
The Sea, the Sea
Iris Murdoch: Cytaty po angielsku
“I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.”
Iris Murdoch
książka
A Severed Head
Źródło: A Severed Head
“The chief requirement of the good life… is to live without any image of oneself.”
Iris Murdoch
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The Bell
The Bell (1958), ch. 9; 2001, p. 119.
“But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.”
Iris Murdoch
książka
The Message to the Planet
The Message to the Planet (1989) p. 43.
“Stuart was not dismayed by his sexual feelings about the boy.”
Iris Murdoch
książka
The Good Apprentice
The Good Apprentice (1985), p. 247.
“All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.”
Iris Murdoch
książka
The Black Prince
The Black Prince (1973); 2003, p. 181.
“Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.”
Iris Murdoch
książka
The Nice and the Good
The Nice and the Good (1968), ch. 14, p. 127.
Murdoch attributed this opinion to her character Kate Gray. It was not her own.
Iris Murdoch
Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
Źródło: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 10, p. 138
“There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.”
Iris Murdoch
książka
A Severed Head
A Severed Head (1961); 1976, p. 181.
Iris Murdoch
Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
Źródło: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 10, p. 148 (the concluding sentence of the book)
“Only lies and evil come from letting people off.”
Iris Murdoch
książka
A Severed Head
A Severed Head (1961); 1976, p. 61.
“Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.”
"Art and Eros: A Dialogue about Art", Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues (1986).
“I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.”
Not Iris Murdoch, but the actress and comedian Rosie O'Donnell. See George Mair Rosie O'Donnell: Her True Story (1997) p. 81.
Misattributed
“I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.”
Iris Murdoch
książka
The Message to the Planet
The Message to the Planet (1989) p. 322.
“The role of philosophy might be said to be to extend and deepen the self-awareness of mankind.”
Iris Murdoch
Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
Źródło: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 9, p. 137
“All metaphysical theories are inconclusively vulnerable to positivist attack.”
Iris Murdoch
Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
Źródło: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 9, p. 127
“Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.”
Iris Murdoch
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The Book and the Brotherhood
The Book and the Brotherhood (1987) p. 248.
“A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.”
Quoted in The Times (6 July 1989).
“The only satisfied rationalists today are blinkered scientists or Marxists.”
Iris Murdoch
Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
Źródło: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 7, p. 113
Iris Murdoch
Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
Źródło: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 8, p. 119
“Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.”
Iris Murdoch
książka
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974) p. 37.
Iris Murdoch
książka
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974), p. 66.
